The Iron Lady / A Dama de Ferro

Sad portrait of an Iron Lady.

Golda Meir, Indira Ghandi and our Brazilian Dilma Roussef or the Portuguese Manuela Ferreira Leite are the kind of women that people call Iron Lady. When I went to see Iron Lady, the movie on Margareth Thatcher, I was waiting that kind of female leader history but what I saw was a sad story on Alzheimer and old age perspectives, mixed with some not so clear memories.

When you get out of this movie you are anxious for a wine or beer in order to forget it and also think about what was that? I went to the movies without reading something about it. When I made my research, trying to figure out why someone decided to make such a movie, I discovered the director was a woman – Phyllida Lloyd. Present times are times to deconstruct everything. Nothing better than a woman to destroy another woman.

Some questions come to my mind in a so distant country from England:

– Didn´t she invigorate British economy?

– Didn´t she work for three terms in the office, leading her Party? Eleven years…

– Didn´t she re-positioned Britain again in the world scenario?

I am not a fan or hate the Iron Lady. I don´t approve wars so I don´t agree with her on Falklands although, as every war, probably there was a political reason for that. But I respect her courage and determination, and I respect her as a human being. If she is with Alzheimer nowadays, it is not a reason for someone to make a movie from this perspective, covering her actions with dust from oblivion.

As I am very mad about this biased movie, I imagine a script on Tony Blair: he suffers from chest pains (this is a real health problem he had, I imagine you know). The he underwent a cardioversion. He is forced to come back to the hospital and there he realizes he has to order a new war to feel better… First, he orders British troops into battle in Iraq (1998). The pain is worst and he orders British troops to Kosovo (1999), one year later to Sierra Leone and one year more (wow, these pains are terrible), troops go to Afghanistan (2001).Beat, beat, beat heart! Then Bush times come. Beat, beat heart! Blair supports him in the 2003 invasion to Iraq… Would it be a good movie for this so loved Prime Minister? Why wouldn´t he be treated that way in a movie?